Save the Hot Air for Mother Nature

I was listening to FOX News our air earlier Monday and a Democratic strategist is criticizing the president for visiting Florida: Calling it blatantly political and, what's more, selfish. That the state could ill afford the commotion and fuss of a presidential visit, so soon after Hurricane Charley swept through.

Funny, I don't remember that kind of talk back in 1992, when the president's father was criticized for waiting too long before he visited a Hurricane Andrew-ravaged Florida. No talk of commotion then. No ranting about inconveniences then. Back then Democrats called the old man out of touch.

So what's the deal now? Maybe the president is too much in touch? This from the same folks who said the president sitting in a classroom for an excruciating seven minutes on Sept. 11 was a tragedy.